Editing Culture of Canada (section)

==== Contemporary politics====
{{Main|Politics of Canada}}
[[File:Parliament-Ottawa.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Centre Block]] of the Canadian parliament buildings on [[Parliament Hill]]]] 
[[Canadian government]]s at the federal level have a tradition of [[liberalism]],<ref name="WesthuesWharf2014a">{{cite book|first1=Anne|last1=Westhues|first2=Brian|last2=Wharf|title=Canadian Social Policy: Issues and Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=chTaAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA10|year=2014|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press|isbn=978-1-55458-409-3|pages=10–11}}</ref> and govern with a [[moderate]], [[centrist]] political ideology.<ref name="Johnson2016">{{cite book|first=David|last=Johnson|title=Thinking Government: Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I_HzDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA13|year=2016|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-4426-3521-0|pages=13–23|quote=...most Canadian governments, especially at the federal level, have taken a moderate, centrist approach to decision making, seeking to balance growth, stability, and governmental efficiency and economy...|access-date=October 29, 2018|archive-date=March 31, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331010046/https://books.google.com/books?id=I_HzDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA13|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Plurality-Majority Electoral Systems: A Review |url=http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=rec/fra/sys/courtney&document=courtney&lang=e |website=Elections Canada |date=August 27, 2018 |quote=First Past the Post in Canada has favoured broadly-based, accommodative, centrist parties... |access-date=October 29, 2018 |archive-date=September 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190912221327/https://elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=rec/fra/sys/courtney&document=courtney&lang=e |url-status=live }}</ref> Canada's [[egalitarian]] approach to governance emphasizing [[social justice]] and multiculturalism, is based on selective [[economic migrant|immigration]], [[social integration]], and [[Suppression of dissent|suppression]] of [[far-right politics]] that has wide public and political support.<ref name="Ambrosea">{{Cite journal|title=Canadian Multiculturalism and the Absence of the Far Right – Nationalism and Ethnic Politics|journal=Nationalism and Ethnic Politics|volume=21|issue=2|pages=213–236|doi=10.1080/13537113.2015.1032033|year=2015|first1=Emma|last1=Ambrosea|first2=Cas|last2=Muddea|s2cid=145773856}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/world/canada/canadas-secret-to-resisting-the-wests-populist-wave.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/world/canada/canadas-secret-to-resisting-the-wests-populist-wave.html |archive-date=2022-01-01 |url-access=limited|title=Canada's Secret to Resisting the West's Populist Wave|newspaper=The New York Times|year=2017|last1=Taub|first1=Amanda}}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[Peace, order, and good government]] are constitutional goals of the Canadian government.<ref name="DixonScheurell2016">{{cite book|first1=John|last1=Dixon|first2=Robert P.|last2=Scheurell|title=Social Welfare in Developed Market Countries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=npzDCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA48|date=17 March 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-36677-5|pages=48–}}</ref>

Canada has a [[multi-party system]] in which many of its legislative customs derive from the unwritten [[Convention (norm)|conventions]] of and precedents set by the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Westminster parliament]] of the United Kingdom. The country has been dominated by two parties,<ref name="EvansGraaf2013">{{cite book|first1=Geoffrey|last1=Evans|first2=Nan Dirk|last2=de Graaf|title=Political Choice Matters: Explaining the Strength of Class and Religious Cleavages in Cross-National Perspective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bZhcx6hLOMMC&pg=PA166|year=2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-966399-6|pages=166–167}}</ref> the [[centre-left]] [[Liberal Party of Canada]] and the [[centre-right]] [[Conservative Party of Canada]].<ref name="BaumerGold2015">{{cite book|first1=Donald C.|last1=Baumer|first2=Howard J.|last2=Gold|title=Parties, Polarization and Democracy in the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uBbvCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT152|year=2015|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-25478-2|page=152|access-date=October 29, 2018|archive-date=March 31, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331010054/https://books.google.com/books?id=uBbvCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT152|url-status=live}}</ref> The historically predominant Liberals position themselves at the centre of the political scale,<ref>{{cite book|first1=Amanda|last1=Bittner|first2=Royce|last2=Koop|title=Parties, Elections, and the Future of Canadian Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TdFTCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA300|date=1 March 2013|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=978-0-7748-2411-8|page=300|quote=Domination by the Centre The central anomaly of the Canadian system, and the primary cause of its other peculiarities, has been its historical domination by a party of the centre. In none of the other countries is a centre party even a major player, much less the dominant....|access-date=October 29, 2018|archive-date=March 31, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331005406/https://books.google.com/books?id=TdFTCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA300|url-status=live}}</ref> with the Conservatives sitting on the right and the [[New Democratic Party]] occupying the [[left-wing|left]].<ref name="EvansGraaf2013"/> Smaller parties like the [[Quebec nationalist]] [[Bloc Québécois]] and the [[Green Party of Canada]] have also been able to exert their influence over the political process by representation at the federal level.